Exodus 9:16

God explains he raised Pharaoh up to display his power and proclaim his name worldwide. Pharaoh's defiance is made to serve God's larger redemptive purpose.

Cross-references · 19

• Rom 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
• Prov 16:4Yahweh has made everything for its own end — yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
• Ps 83:17–18Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
• Ps 64:9All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.
• 1 Chr 16:24Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
• Exod 14:4I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
• Exod 14:17Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
• Exod 18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”
• Rom 9:22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
• Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• 1 Pet 2:8and, “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
• Jude 1:4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Ps 136:10–15To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever;
• Mal 1:14“But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
• Josh 2:10–11For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
• Isa 63:12–14Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
• Exod 15:11–16Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
• 1 Pet 2:19For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
• 1 Sam 4:8Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

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